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This beverage is consumed 165 million times per day in Britain, usually with milk and sometimes with biscuits.
What is tea?
In this year, William the Conqueror defeated King Harold at the Battle of Hastings, changing English history forever.
What is 1066?
Americans park in a "parking lot," but the British use this two-word term.
What is car park?
This quintessentially English sport involves wickets, bails, and tea breaks, with matches that can last several days.
What is cricket?
This football club, based in Derby, was one of the founding members of the Football League in 1888.
What is Derby County FC or "The Rams"?
This traditional British practice involves standing in orderly lines, which the British are famous for doing patiently.
What is queuing?
This king was known as "the Lionheart" and led the Third Crusade in the 12th century.
Who was Richard I?
While Americans have football, the type of football played in the UK has a different name in the States.
What is soccer?
The annual tennis championships held at the All England Club are better known by the name of this southwest-London district.
What is Wimbledon?
Enlightenment painter born in 1734, he is known for candle-lit scientific scenes such as An Experiment on a Bird in the Air Pump.
Who is Joseph Wright?
Celebrated on November 5th, this event commemorates a failed plot to blow up Parliament in 1605.
What is Guy Fawkes Night (or Bonfire Night)?
This ancient wall, built by the Romans, stretched 73 miles across northern England to keep out the Scots.
What is Hadrian's Wall?
Created shortly after the 2nd World War, this public good provider is treasured in Britain, and incomprehensible to Americans.
What is the NHS?
Sir Chris Hoy won six Olympic gold medals in this indoor cycling discipline raced on a banked oval.
What is track cycling/velodrome/sprint cycling?
Derby's name comes from this ancient language, meaning "village of the deer."
What is Old Norse? - Deoraby
Set in the Yorkshire moors, this Gothic novel by Emily Brontë features the character Heathcliff.
What is "Wuthering Heights"?
This prime minister led Britain through World War I and helped the Irish begin to realise their dreams of independence.
Who is David Lloyd George?
Britain’s Chancellor of the Exchequer delivers the Budget; in Washington D.C. the same job is performed by this Cabinet official.
What is the Secretary of the Treasury?
Run at Aintree since 1839, this steeplechase is often called the world’s toughest horse race.
What is the Grand National?
Porcelain made in Derby since the 18th century has carried this three-word royal brand name since 1890.
What is Royal Crown Derby?
This traditional British greeting and conversation starter is discussed so frequently it has become a cultural stereotype.
What is the weather?
This shortest war in history lasted only 38 minutes and was fought between Britain and this African island nation in 1896.
What is Zanzibar? (Anglo-Zanzibar War)
In the U.K. an estate agent shows you flats; in the U.S. this single-word job title—coined by the National Association in 1916—does the tour.
What is a realtor?
The ancestral indoor racket game still played at Hampton Court Palace is known in Britain by this two-word name.
What is real tennis?
Each Shrove Tuesday the Derbyshire town of Ashbourne hosts this medieval mass-football match between Up’Ards and Down’Ards.
What is Royal Shrovetide Football?